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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rhering who wrote (7662)	10/22/2003 11:54:39 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25522

I would argue that the improved hardware is vastly more important than the incremental changes MSFT has made to the software. Is Office 97 really that much different than the current version? On the surface, this appears to be a ludicrous and not too well thought out statement. cnn.com Excerpt: "Other than the mobile phone, really the only thing that's making (workers) more effective is the software," Gates said Tuesday, shortly before unveiling the new products on a Manhattan theater stage.